It's Your Foot! - AI riskiness, Zoom layoffs, HBO's The Last of Us, Skype on Apple Silicon

WORLD WAR AI
• OpenAI announces ChatGPT Plus
• Google responds to ChatGPT with Bard
• Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing and Edge.
• Google hosted its own AI event and it announced multi-search, Maps improvements, and Translate improvements, and discussed how AI can make life better
• Semi-related: Paul was let into the Notion AI beta
Windows
• Paul has some thoughts about Windows 12 and what an AI-based Windows could look like
• Ads are coming to the Microsoft Store. FINALLY
• New Insider build for the Beta channel. No new features, but a new policy that lets IT admins customize how Search looks on the Windows 11 Taskbar
• Microsoft is integrating Adobe Acrobat PDF with Microsoft Edge, but only on Windows 10 and 11 for now
Microsoft 365
• Native Apple Silicon version of Skype is 3X faster. What took so long?
Hardware
• Microsoft says it’s still committed to HoloLens 2 and MR, tries not to laugh
• Samsung is working on XR hardware with Qualcomm and Google.
Dev
• Microsoft updates its .NET language strategy. Nothing has changed, other than they way they document their .NET language strategy
More Big Tech Earnings
• Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta earnings
• Zoom just showed us the way to handle layoffs
Xbox
• Sony is fighting Microsoft subpoena in AB case. It’s fighting the FTC subpoena, too
• UK CMA says AB deal is “anti-competitive” but would accept some concessions
• New Game Pass titles announced for the middle of February
• Sony says the PS5 is immune to the downturn
• Nintendo says Switch is not immune to the downturn, but it’s still dominating
Tips & Picks
• Tip of the week: Protect your privacy in Windows 11
• App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge Dev
• Brown Liquor of the week: Mackmyra
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